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Effectiveness of a structured handwriting program
(1999)The purpose of this study was to assess the use of a structured multi-sensory handwriting program with grade one students. This study utilized a multiple-group time series design and included a pre-test. A standardized ... -
Effects of a formal mentoring program on teacher retention and benefits to proteges and mentors
(2001)This thesis is an evaluation research study into the effects of a formal mentoring program on teacher retention and the benefits to mentors and protégés. The program studied took place in the Keewatin-Patricia District ... -
Effects of journaling: a study on the benefits of journaling in Chinese adolescents with anxiety
(2021)Academic performance plays a strong role in how Chinese students perceive their success throughout their adolescent years. As a result, this group of young people are left vulnerable to developing anxiety-related issues ... -
Embodied Transformation: Tapping into the Nature of Emergent Learning
(2016)This dissertation describes a basic qualitative inquiry research study, regarding participant experiences of an emergent approach to teaching in higher education. Patterns in transformative meaning-making were a particular ... -
Engaging multiple representations in grade eight: exploring mathematics teachers' perspectives and instructional practices in Canada and Nigeria
(2020)This study was inspired by and utilises representations, one of the mathematical learning processes (NCTM, 2000), which is currently acclaimed as one of the reform-based instructional approaches to teaching and learning ... -
English as a second language (ESL) teachers' perceptions of grammar instruction
(2005)The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions that teachers of English as a second language (ESL) have regarding grammar instruction in ESL classrooms. The participants are five ESL teachers in ESL programs in ... -
Enhanced single school model : one Faculty of Education's variation of the professional development school
(2003)The Enhanced Single School Model (ESSM) was created to provide teacher candidates with an extended practicum during their professional year. It included two core teaching blocks and weekly volunteer time at a single school ... -
Enriching Communities with Community-based Arts Education
(2015)This research aims to describe the value of community-based arts education. Community-based arts organizations focus on community concerns and issues as well as support individual development (Hoffman Davis, 2010), yet ... -
Environmental education and the Cheetah Conservation Fund : exploring children's value-based relationships with cheetahs / by Courtney Hughes.
(2008)For this thesis I collaborated with the Namibian Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) to research how farming children perceive and experience cheetahs. I also explored how CCF’s educational documents might affect the ways ... -
Environmental emotions, environmental social justice, and hope
(2023)Educators are faced with teaching their students about subjects such as climate change, the mass extinction of species, and environmental degradation while trying to encourage a love of nature and pro-environmental ... -
ESL learners perceptions of the cultural components in their English learning
(2003)This qualitative study investigated English as a Second Language (ESL) learners' perceptions of the nature and influence of immersion in a predominantly English culture on their English learning. The participants in the ... -
Ethical considerations for mindfulness in education: prescriptive quick fix or transformational paradigm shift?
(2017)While mindfulness practices have demonstrated utility in bolstering human well-being and functioning, they are certainly not beyond reproach. Purser and Loy (2013) have coined the term “McMindfulness” to refer to instrumental ... -
Evaluation and assessment in teacher education : an analysis of the assessment culture of an Ontario initial teacher education program
(2013-02-21)The Ontario Ministry of Education, with the shortest teacher evaluation programs in the nation, is proposing changes to the two-semester teacher education "Professional Year" in favour of a longer program. Rather than ... -
Evaluation of cooperative learning implementation in the classroom
(2000)This study examined how Cooperative Learning was being implemented by teachers in one board of education. Cooperative Learning is an instructional strategy which involves students working together in carefully designed ... -
Evaluation of the Good Readers' Club : an early literacy intervention program
(2006)Programs reviewed include : Success for All, Reading Recovery, the 5th Block Program and the Good Readers' Club at the Lakehead District School Board (Thunder Bay, Northwestern Ontario). 29 grade two students from ten ... -
Examination of the role of the multiple intelligences in studies of effective teaching
(2000)The purpose of this study is to evaluate selected teacher effectiveness research for elements of multiple intelligence (MI) theory. In order to acquire a more holistic picture of the nature of effective teaching, this study ... -
Examining barriers and facilitators in using teachers’ journals for critical space
(2017)Among the varying ways to reflect on practice, learning journals capture the stories and lived experiences of teachers and help the writer to learn from experience about an event, an idea, or emotions. What does critical ... -
Experience and influence : student and parent perspectives of an alternative school
(2010)Traditionally, education and schooling have been developed by and implemented through the adult perspective. An increasing number of educators and researchers focus on alternatives to mainstream education and this study ... -
Experienced Aboriginal teachers' narratives in the publicly funded school system
(2014-12-18)The lack of literature related to the perceptions of experienced Aboriginal teachers in the publicly funded school system represented a void in knowledge. Within this Indigenous narrative study the Aboriginal teachers ... -
Experiences of early childhood educators in a nature-based, early learning program: a case study
(2014-12-05)Across Canada, an interest in connecting people with nature is growing, and much of this interest is focussed on young children. This study, which explores the experiences of two early childhood educators as they piloted ...